Word: instrument
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...clear and present danger" of which Paul Nitze and other SALT critics warn. They fear that the increase in the accuracy, payload and number of Soviet MIRVed. ICBMs will soon threaten the U.S.'s own Minuteman ICBMS with a first strike. Such a capability could be an instrument of political blackmail such as in some future replay of the Cuban missile crisis, or perhaps over Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet in SALT II, the Carter Administration would have blunted that threat somewhat by limiting the proliferation of warheads. It would be better, of course, if the treaty stopped...
...nuclear bomb would obviously enhance the power of any terrorist group. With the emergence in Iran of terrorism as a foreign policy instrument of the "responsible" nation-state, the danger of nuclear terrorism has become more real...
Some observers distinguish two stages in the entire upheaval: the first a popular revolt that overthrew the Shah, then a "Khomeini coup" that concentrated all power in the clergy. The Ayatullah's main instrument was a stream of elamiehs (directives) from Qum, many issued without consulting Bazargan's nominal government. Banks and heavy industry were nationalized and turned over to government managers. Many of the elamiehs were concerned with imposing a strict Islamic...
...critiques, we have also pointed out that the phenomenon and consequences of sociohiology must be understood within a political context. We have shown how the attempt to "biologicize" social problems is not a new development, but rather another example in a long history of science being used as an instrument to justify and maintain oppressive social relations. The events which we noted in our original letter the the Crimson, of the vigorous application of sociobiological ideas in Europe to justify proposals for reactionary social measures, are thus not an aberration, but the logical outgrowth of a bad theory which...